T ONDON descends to-day into the streets to welcome the 1.4 bride of her future King. The obstacles, official and other, which at one time threatened to make the reception a...

" THE SPECTATOR " is published every Saturaay Morning, in time for • des - patch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through...

international dealings with weak and half-governed States—exactly the same kind of difficulty, in fact, which there is in dealing with weak and half-governed minds. If you are...

ENGLISH LOYALTY. n enthusiastic reception promised by London to the rince of Wales and his bride seems to have astonished ordinary observers and the Court in about an equal...

I F William the First of Prussia escape the fate of Charles the First it will not be for want of a Strafford. Herr von Bismark Schiinhausen wants apparently none of the...

T HE Bishops, of course, love us all dearly, even those of us who are " erring" brothers. It was quite evident the other day that they loved the Sunday excursionists, and only...

I T has long been difficult to follow the course of American opinion, but it is now becoming hard to understand American facts. The country is waging a great war, one which...

W HEN the Spectator accompanied his friend Sir Roger to. the assizes, he was thrown into great alarm by the old knight rising to address the court. It turned out that Sir Roger...

T HE history of modern Poland is typified by two extra- ordinary men, the career of both of whom expresses the life of the last generation. In the height of the struggle of the...

E VERY nation possesses, besides its avowed creed, special cere- monies and practices in which it places a belief far greater than the credit which is accorded to its...

T HE Irish people have always been at once fertile and fond of I. that kind of eloquence of which Mr. Whiteside is a master, and one can therefore understand the regret with...

T HE capital of Austria has the reputation of being one of the gayest cities of Europe ; but it seldom was so gay as during the carnival just passed. For the period of more than...

March 5th, 1863. " Ce que je sail is mieux c'est mon commencement," said Racine's extemporary barrister ; and a lucky fellow he must have been to know best how to begin, for I...

will have received the diplomatic correspondence published here on Friday last, relative to the pro- position of mediation offered by the Emperor Napoleon. Stripped of its...

THE all-absorbing, though slightly undefined, feelings of loyal enthusiasm of the day, have met with no greater difficulty in the way of their expression than that of finding a...

SIR CHARLES LYELL ON THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN.* THIS long looked-for and much talked-of volume is, we are inclined to think, likely to give rise to some disappointment among a not...

Waiting for• Spring—The mother watching lonely, By her sick child when all the night is dumb ; Hearing no sound but his hoarse breathing only, Saith, " He will rally when the...

said Coleridge, "with froth from the top half-way down, constitute Whitbread's Entire." This was a hard saying ou Mr. Whitbread, and scarcely justified, the modern generation...

ninteenth century are remarkable for com- prehensiveness and design, the polish, as well as the breadth of the workmanship, and the vigour and deadliness of the blows struck by...

THE Cornhill is this month by far the most readable, if not the beat of the magazines. There is nothing so pleasant in any of them—though " Mrs. Clifford's Marriage " in...

Memoir of H.R.S. the Princess Alexandra of Denmark. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—In the name of that large section of the public who hold the Court news to be, after the births,...

excellent reprint of Theodore Parker's works—we trust not of the whole of the works of that very able and warmhearted, but also often very wrong- headed speaker and writer....

collection of games and employments for children, based upon those invented by Frederic Friibel, and known as the "Kinder Garten System of Education." Their main object appears...

B., R. A. (Hogarth.)—A collection of twenty-one photographs of a humorous character, taken from original drawings, illustrating the adventures of an officer on his arrival in...

Marshall, and Co.)—This is one of those distressing little volumes of verses which attempt, not always without success, to deprecate the rigid application of critical judgment...

The author of this " Handy Book of Law and Equity " is careful to inform us that his work is designed, not to supersede the employment of lawyers, but rather to enable the...

Homeless Poor," &c. (Faithfull.)—It is probable that few persons are better quali- fied than the authoress of this book to speak from actual knowledge of the nature and extent...

S." (Bell and Daldy.)—There is considerable merit in the verses contained in this small volume. The best of " M. S.'s " productions is that which gives the title to his book—a...

Bourn.)—We can scarcely be expected to do more than chronicle the ap- pearance of this weighty volume, which contains 900 pages of what cannot, by any stretch of imagination, be...

Organic Nature. By Professor Huxley, F.R.S. (Hardwicke.)— This small volume con- tains a verbatim report of six lectures to working men, recently delivered at the Museum of...

Dreams and Realities, by Walter C. Spens (Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh).- —.Journals and Correspondence of Thomas Sedgwick Whalley, by the Ras. hilt Wickham, M.A....

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TO ht prectai r FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1863. THE PRINCES OF WALES, IN THEIR PERSONAL AND POLITICAL RELATIONS TO THE CROWN AND THE NATION. THE line of...

GREECE AND THE GREEKS.* GREECE, for the last twenty or thirty years, has been overrun by English, French, and German travellers ; but few of them, at least of the book-making...

So much discussion has arisen as to the lineage of the Prin- cess Alexandra that we think it may be interesting to our readers to see the exact pedigree, which we accordingly...

Wrrn writers whose characteristic genius consists in the power to introduce the very finest strokes and shadings of individual truth into a well understood social medium of...

subject of the ruined civilization of Northern Africa so completely his own, that we need say little by way of recommendation of his present volume. His style is not, indeed,...

a book which, as far as admiration for England goes, would delight the inmost hearts of Conservative squires, of clergymen generally, and even of farmers. It is something, how-...

THE object of this book is to rouse the British public to a sense of the vast importance of having a gate of their own to the Pacific through Nicaragua, in addition to the one...